Lawmakers in Gabon’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted to decriminalize homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse a law that punishes sexual relations between people of the same sex.
Forty-eight members of parliament backed the proposed initiative by the government to revise an article of the 2019 law that criminalized homosexuality. Twenty-four voted against, while 25 others abstained. Gay marriage, however, remains illegal in the central African nation.
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